by Alison Reid | Jul 17, 2020 | Leadership
Are you afraid of saying something stupid? One particularly vivid memory I have from school is being in an English class in the final year of the girls’ school I was in – I would have been 15 or 16. Our gloomy English teacher, Mrs Duffy, was asking a...
by Alison Reid | Jul 3, 2020 | Leadership
Don’t take the monkey May I introduce you to Alex. Alex is a finance manager in a tech company. She’s struggling to keep her head above water at the moment as she fields demands from all directions – her boss, her colleagues, her clients, not to...
by Alison Reid | Jun 18, 2020 | Leadership
Listen to your body The other day, I went off-piste. I’d been feeling groggy all week and woke up tired again. However, after I did my usual 20 minute meditation, rather than just going up to my desk as I would usually, I curled up on the sofa with a blanket and...
by Alison Reid | Jun 2, 2020 | Leadership
Be your own No 1 fan When my husband and I first met, he used to joke that he was my “No 1 fan”. He buoyed me up with words of encouragement and celebrated what went well for me. He even came and cheered me on at a tennis match. (He’s still very supportive though, 10...
by Alison Reid | May 13, 2020 | Leadership
Why seeing people isn’t all it’s cracked up to be Are you suffering from the Covid-19 phenomenon of Zoom fatigue? That feeling of, “not another Zoom meeting/quiz/virtual drinks” (delete as appropriate)? According to experts, the reason we find...
